Global demand for decorative laminates is expected to rise 5.6 percent per year to 10.7 billion square meters in 2018, valued at $40.8 billion. Demand will benefit from expected increases in the manufacture of products such as cabinets, ...
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Flakeboard, manufacturer of composite panel materials, is the newest associate member of the North American Laminate Flooring Association (NALFA). NALFA offers three levels of membership – regular manufacturing membership, associate ...
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Ikea Planning New Plant in Russia The Swedish furniture giant Ikea is planning to set a new plant in Novgorod, Russia alongside a particleboard mill that it bought from Pfleiderer in January 2013. According to the Russian media sources ...
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Flakeboard and SierraPine Announce Asset Purchase Markham,Ontario,Canada(February 13,2014)–Flakeboard America Ltd.,a U.S.subsidiary of Arauco,has agreed to buy the western U.S.panel assets of SierraPine,a California limited ...
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The Composite Panel Association (CPA) and the Federal Wood Industries Coalition (FWIC) submitted criticisms and proposed amendments for plans to revise rules governing formaldehyde emissions from particleboard, MDF/HDF and hardwood plywood. ...
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The Swiss Krono group intends to locate a Russian OSB investment project announced this spring at a site in Krasnokamsk in the region of Perm, which is on the western edge of the Urals. Ines Kaindl, the chairwoman of the group's supervisory ...
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Industry veteran Herb Holtzman, a former owner of Eagle Inds., is consulting with a three-month-old domestic entertainment and occasional furniture manufacturer named American Heartland. American Heartland is offering several looks based ...
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The Mexican particleboard and plywood manufacturer Duraplay has followed the Chilean wood-based panels group Maderas y Sinteticos S.A. (Masisa) and Proteak in announcing an MDF investment project in Mexico. The company intends to install a ...
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Turnover and results figures at the Portuguese company Sonae Industria declined further in the second quarter of 2013. Consolidated turnover was down year on year by 5% to €324m. The EBITDA fell by 18% to €19m, while the recurrent ...
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At a second auction date for the sale of the assets of the Spanish particleboard manufacturer Tablicia, which has been insolvent since October 2012, the Peruvian trading company Representaciones Martín won the bidding. According to ...
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Sales statistics recently released by the Composite Panel Association (CPA) have shown that particleboard sales grew more strongly than MDF/HDF sales in the second quarter of 2013, continuing a trend seen in the first three months of the ...
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International Paper (IP) has finalized the previously announced sale of its Temple-Inland Building Products division to Georgia-Pacific Building Products for $710m in a bid to focus on its paper and packaging business. IP chairman and ...
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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) submitted a proposal for a two-part regulation governing formaldehyde emissions from particleboard, MDF/HDF and hardwood plywood which is to apply in future across the whole of the USA. This ...
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You can save thousands on a kitchen remodel by refurbishing your cabinets and it's the green way to go. To be fit for reuse, the cabinets must work with your layout, and the units must be plumb, square, and sturdy. Delamination, either from ...
German particleboard imports and exports have fallen short of last year’s figures across the board between January and March. Imports dropped more than exports. A foreign trade surplus emerged for raw particleboard due to the sharp ...